Monday, 11 June 2012

Firstly, I'm happy to say tickets for the recording of the second series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme have gone up today, and are available from the BBC here.

Secondly, I was on the Now Show this week, doing my best to find something funny to say about the Eurozone Crisis, and not get distracted by smurfs doing star-jumps. The whole show will be on iPlayer until next Friday, but if you miss it, my bit is here:

Thank you for the video ; obviously as I don't speak Wall Street English fluently yet I'll probably need to watch it several (times ten) times till I've got it... but that's quite a pleasant way to learn about British politics and economics...

About recordings, is there by any chance any one planned on the 28th of July ? because I'll be THERE in London, yippee !

I just wanted to come to this site to say that I had to stop listening to the "Ottery St Mary" episode of Cabin Pressure last week because I was laughing so hard I was worried I was going to spray the pipette full of live HIV I was using into my open mouth. Keep entertaining our containment lab, here's to many more seasons,Simon

Thanks for sharing so much of your work here! It makes my procrastination not only entertaining but often educational.

Speaking of which, I was wondering about something. I'm supposed to be studying for a Russian exam, so of course I am instead thinking about how it would work if the employees of the Airline MJN were the brothers Karamazov.

Obviously Arthur is the dear holy fool Alyosha. Douglas could easily be the good-time guy Mitya, dashingly getting himself in and out of trouble while still harboring a deep appreciation for higher beauty. Martin could probably be Ivan, driving himself mad with his internal arguments, pride, and doubt.

And I suppose Smerdyakov could be played by former MJN employee Nigel or by little Kieran or something.

But I still don't know who should play the doomed head of the Karamazov family. Structurally, I'd say it should be Carolyn. But Fyodor Pavlovich is a horrible man who deserves to die, while Carolyn is a wonderful woman who should probably live forever.

Possibly Gordon Shappey could reach some of Fyodor Pavlovich's levels of non-brilliance, but I still don't know where Carolyn would fit in, then.

I am sure you will be relieved to know that I am going to continue considering this instead of going over Russian vocabulary.

Thank you so much for explaining the Eurozone Crisis in such a fun way. I was able to picture the entire thing {especially Greece and the lobster!}, and managed not to totally laugh myself into an unrecoverable state!

Sadly, I can't make the two recording dates, but hope I just might be able to get to the ones for "Cabin Pressure", when they are finally announced. And whilst I patiently {patiently... really... me?} wait for the CD releases, a lovely soul has uploaded all the episodes to YouTube - where I first heard "Molokai", and wrote some extra verses to Douglas' version of 'Deck the Halls' :) - so I have had those on repeat.

I don't suppose you could give away Douglas with the CDs, could you... ;)